GRE Text Completion
The purpose of the Text Completion questions is to measure the ability to recognize words or phrases that both logically and stylistically complete the meaning of a sentence.
In deciding which of words or sets of words can best be substituted for blank spaces in a sentence, one must analyze the relationships among the component parts of the incomplete sentence.
One must consider each answer choice and decide which completes the sentence in such a way that the sentence has a logically satisfying meaning and can be read as a stylistically integrated whole.
A recent survey shows that, while ninety-four percent of companies conducting management- training programs open them to women, women are ________ only seventy-four percent of those programs.
#1
Thomas Paine, whose political writing was often flamboyant, was in private life a surprisingly ________ man: he lived in rented rooms, ate little, and wore drab clothes.
#2
Their ________ of loyalties is first to oneself, next to kin, then to fellow tribe members, and finally to compatriots.
#3
The belief that science destroys the arts appears to be supported by historical evidence that the arts have ________ only when the sciences have been ________.
#4
The action and characters in a melodrama can be so immediately ________ that all observers can hiss the villain with an air of smug but enjoyable ________.
#5
In the design of medical experiments, the need for ________ assignment of treatments to patients must be ________ the difficulty of persuading patients to participate in an experiment in which their treatment is decided by chance.
#6
Though dealers insist that professional art dealers can make money in the art market, even an ________ knowledge is not enough: the art world is so fickle that stock-market prices are________ by comparison.